ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH IN THE 21ST CENTURY:ISSUES, CHALLENGESANtJ PROSPECTS.

Abstract

Environmental Health in a discipline in Public Health whose focus is on the .
promotion and maintenance of Healthy Environment for the survival of humanity.
Environmental Health has been defined by The World Health organisation
(WHO) (1992) as been the "control of all those factors in the physical
environment that exercise or may exercise a deleterious effect on physical
development, health' and survival." This far reaching definition encompassesa
very wide range of activities and involves the work of many different disciplines.
Environmental Health is the study of how environmental factors can harm health
and how to identify, prevent and control such effects.